Astronomy

Credit: NASA/IBEX/Adler Planetarium Out at the boundary of our solar system, pressure runs high. This pressure, the force plasma, magnetic fields and particles like ions, cosmic rays and electrons exert on one another when they…

Credit: Illustration: Alexander Millar/Stockholm University Physicists at Stockholm University and the Max Planck Institute for Physics have turned to plasmas in a proposal that could revolutionise the search for the elusive dark…

German-British research team simulates basic conditions for the formation of magnetic stars How do some neutron stars become the strongest magnets in the Universe? A German-British team of astrophysicists has found a possible answer to the…

Credit: NASA, ESA and D. Player (STScI) Our Milky Way is a frugal galaxy. Supernovas and violent stellar winds blow gas out of the galactic disk, but that gas falls back onto the galaxy to form new generations of stars. In an…

Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio The discovery of ice deposits in craters scattered across the Moon's south pole has helped to renew interest in exploring the lunar surface, but no one is…

UC Riverside-led research shows our galaxy is undergoing a massive merger with its largest satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic CloudCredit: Ethan Jahn, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Just like the moon orbits the Earth, and the…

UC Riverside astronomers find large-scale winds associated with active black holes in small galaxies suppress star formationCredit: HST/NASA/ESA. RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- Astronomers at the University of California, Riverside, have…

The Goethe University physics professor to be Andrews Professor of Astronomy at Dublin Trinity CollegeCredit: Jürgen Lecher, Goethe University "The Andrews Professor for Astronomy is a tremendous recognition of the excellence…

The Historic Sites initiative recognizes landmarks significant to physics history across the United States.Credit: Adler Planetarium COLLEGE PARK, MD, October 11, 2019 -- The American Physical Society (APS) is pleased to…

New lens technique spots tiny dwarf galaxy in the first, super-energetic stages of star formation Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray magnifying glass to peer back in time, to nearly 9.4…